Computer Graphics News

April 17, 2025

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How the Brain Controls Movement Under Uncertainty

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study by neuroscientists shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, planning and execution of movements in the brain are affected differently. ...

3D Streaming Gets Leaner by Seeing Only What Matters

Apr. 9, 2025 — A new approach to streaming technology may significantly improve how users experience virtual reality and augmented reality environments, according to a new study. The research describes a method for directly predicting visible content in immersive ...

AI Models of the Brain Could Serve as 'Digital Twins' in Research

Apr. 9, 2025 — In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual ...

Engineers Bring Sign Language to 'Life' Using AI to Translate in Real-Time

Apr. 9, 2025 — American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system that translates gestures into text with 98.2% ...

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Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera

Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with ...

Powerful New Software Platform Could Reshape Biomedical Research by Making Data Analysis More Accessible

Apr. 3, 2025 — A powerful new software platform is set to transform biomedical research by allowing scientists to conduct complex and customized data analyses ...

Developing Software for Easy Estimation of 3D Gene Expression Distribution

Mar. 26, 2025 — Researchers have developed 'tomoseqr' -- a new software tool that enables easy estimation of the three-dimensional (3D) spatial distribution of gene expression. Tomoseqr is free to use and has been ...

New Type of Quantum Computer Studies the Dance of Elementary Particles

Mar. 25, 2025 — The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of physicists shows how an unconventional type of quantum computer opens a new ...

Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI

Mar. 18, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers say a true revolution in wireless technologies is only possible through endowing the system with the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) that can think, imagine, ...

New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches

Mar. 20, 2025 — Researchers developed a hybrid AI approach that can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, ...

Can Online Games Be an Effective Intervention to Help Adolescents Reduce Substance Abuse?

Mar. 19, 2025 — For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas ...

GIFs Helping Footballers to Sleep Better

Mar. 7, 2025 — A recent study has found that short animations known as GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format) can improve the sleep of professional female ...

Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters

Feb. 27, 2025 — A multi-institutional research team has clarified the energy levels of color centers at the SiO2/SiC interface, paving the way toward the development of scalable quantum technologies that use them as ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was ...

Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality

Feb. 20, 2025 — Dynamic facial projection mapping (DFPM) has reached new heights in speed and accuracy, with the development of a state-of-the-art system with groundbreaking innovations. The first breakthrough ...

New Nanoscale Technique Unlocks Quantum Material Secrets

Feb. 18, 2025 — Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

Holograms Boost 3D Printing Efficiency and Resolution

Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have used holographic projections to bring unprecedented resolution to a light-based 3D printing technique. The method allows the fabrication of millimeter-scale objects within seconds ...

User-Friendly System Can Help Developers Build More Efficient Simulations and AI Models

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data ...

'Unprecedented' Level of Control Allows Person Without Use of Limbs to Operate Virtual Quadcopter

Jan. 21, 2025 — A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter -- just by ...

Automated Method to Detect Common Sleep Disorder Affecting Millions

Jan. 9, 2025 — AI-powered algorithm can analyze video recordings of clinical sleep tests and more accurately diagnose REM sleep behavior ...

A Smart Ring With a Tiny Camera Lets Users Point and Click to Control Home Devices

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed IRIS, a smart ring that allows users to point and click to control smart devices. The prototype Bluetooth ring contains a small camera which sends an image of the selected ...

Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices Create Unprecedented Haptic Sensations

Jan. 8, 2025 — Scientists have invented compact wearable devices that deliver rich, expressive, and pleasant tactile sensations that go far beyond the buzzing vibrations of today's consumer ...

Developing Printable Droplet Laser Displays

Jan. 7, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative method for rapidly creating laser light sources in large quantities using an inkjet printer that ejects laser-emitting droplets. By applying an electric field ...

Digital Healthcare Consultations Not Enough for Safe Assessment of Tonsillitis

Dec. 27, 2024 — Digital healthcare consultations are not enough for a safe assessment of tonsillitis, according to a new study. Reliability will not be sufficient, thus increasing the risk of over- or ...

11 To 12-Year-Olds Use Smartphones Mainly to Talk to Family and Friends

Dec. 26, 2024 — A research group has analyzed the digital ecosystem of 11- to 12-year-old children across the Basque Autonomous Community, and concluded that two out of three own a smartphone. They use smartphones ...

Being Digitally Hyperconnected Causes 'Techno-Strain' for Employees

Dec. 17, 2024 — A new study has shown that employees are experiencing mental and physical techno-strain due to being 'hyperconnected' to digital technology making it difficult for people to switch off from ...

Young English Speakers Are Most Comfortable With Digital Health

Dec. 17, 2024 — Digital health tools, such as patient portals, treatment apps and online appointment schedulers, are increasingly common. But not everyone is equally at home using ...

Physics and Emote Design: Quantifying Clarity in Digital Images

Dec. 16, 2024 — When analyzing artworks, understanding the visual clarity of compositions is crucial. Inspired by digital artists, researchers have created a metric to quantify clarity in digital images. As a ...

Problems Developed Faster Among Gamers Who Started Early

Dec. 16, 2024 — People who started playing video games at an early school age developed problematic gaming more quickly compared to those who started playing a few years ...

Scientists Create AI That 'Watches' Videos by Mimicking the Brain

Dec. 9, 2024 — Imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can watch and understand moving images with the subtlety of a human brain. Now, scientists have made this a reality by creating MovieNet: an ...

Digital Twins of the Earth Is a Misleading Term as Computer Models Are Always a Simplified Representation of Reality

Dec. 2, 2024 — The term 'Digital Twin of the Earth' creates the idea of the availability of a highly accurate virtual copy of our planet, enabling researchers to predict the most complex future climate ...

Inside the 'Swat Team' -- How Insects React to Virtual Reality Gaming

Nov. 29, 2024 — Humans get a real buzz from the virtual world of gaming and augmented reality but now scientists have trialled the use of these new-age technologies on small animals, to test the reactions of tiny ...

The Next Evolution of AI Begins With Ours

Nov. 25, 2024 — The genome has space for only a small fraction of the information needed to control complex behaviors. So then how, for example, does a newborn sea turtle instinctually know to follow the moonlight? ...

Reality Check: Making Indoor Smartphone-Based Augmented Reality Work

Nov. 23, 2024 — To understand the practical challenges of indoor augmented reality applications on smartphones, researchers conducted 113 hours of extensive experiments and case studies over 316 patterns to ...